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  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    The Fat Wars, Animal vs. Vegetable

    There's a story behind vegetable oil taking over the American pantry and it has nothing to with health or flavor. In the early 1900s, Procter & Gamble found a way to market excess cottonseed oil and it forever changed the way we shop, cook and think about food.

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    Edward De Sear, Law Firm Partner, Charged With Distributing Kiddie Porn

    Edward De Sear, via LinkedIn ​Edward De Sear, a top-ranked capital markets lawyer and partner at international firm Allen & Overy, was arrested by the FBI yesterday at his New Jersey home on charges of distributing kiddie porn on the Internet. Reuters reports that he appeared in federal court ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    UFO Video Proves Existence of YouTube

    The above video of a supposed "UFO Mothership" over London was posted onto YouTube Monday and has already garnered over two million hits. It briefly captures a group of glowing lights passing by overhead and is similar to another popular UFO video shared months ago from Jerusalem. Whether you belie ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 23, 2011

    Wu Lyf

    The above video of a supposed "UFO Mothership" over London was posted onto YouTube Monday and has already garnered over two million hits. It briefly captures a group of glowing lights passing by overhead and is similar to another popular UFO video shared months ago from Jerusalem. Whether you belie ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 23, 2011

    Angela Di Carlo: Just to Be Polite

    The above video of a supposed "UFO Mothership" over London was posted onto YouTube Monday and has already garnered over two million hits. It briefly captures a group of glowing lights passing by overhead and is similar to another popular UFO video shared months ago from Jerusalem. Whether you belie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2010

    Groupon Brushes Off Google's $6 Billion Offer

    ​Six billion dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? Groupon, the Chicago-based mega-start-up of online group coupons (get it?), turning down a six billion dollar offer from SkyNet Google. The tech giant has more money than God and often uses it to snap up smaller companies. But often, they ... More >>

  • News

    October 20, 2010

    Grinding Justice

    Operation Streamline Costs Millions, Tramples the Constitution, Treats Migrants Like Cattle, and Doesn't Work

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    So Bob Dylan Is Coming to Terminal 5 In November

    ​And so history's most evil Santa impersonator will come to the Bowery Presents' biggest venue next month, a win for the massive local concert promotion conglomerate, and a draw for the fans who will surely sell these shows out in a matter of minutes. At three nights (November 22nd-24th, or th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    The Ten Very Worst 9/11-Themed Ads

    Click to Enlarge.Via CopyRanter.​Yesterday, Copyranter caught an advertisement (pictured right) for French weekly Courrier International. The conceit of the advertisement, by Saatchi & Saatchi France, as put by Copyranter: "The World Trade Center architects should have stopped at about 50 floo ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 8, 2010

    A NEW CHAPTER

    Joshua Ferris reads from his second book

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2010

    Today in Non-Shockers: That Berlin Cannibal Restaurant Is, Indeed, a Hoax

    Remember the cannibal restaurant that we told you about, the one that was angering Berliners with requests for body parts, but was probably a hoax? It's a hoax! Apparently, the whole marketing campaign was a tone-deaf hoax perpetrated by vegetarian activists trying to draw a moral parallel between ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2010

    Joe Bruno, Other Pols Use Campaign Funds to Pay Legal Expenses

    Joe BrunoBy Adam Schwartzman Five prominent New York politicians have dipped into their campaign funds to pay for nearly $3 million in legal expenses associated with investigations of their possible misconduct, a Voice examination of campaign disclosure reports has revealed. While it's unclear if t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Six Ways Live Nation Could Become More Fan Friendly

    ​On Saturday, the Times ran an overview of the woes facing this summer's tours, which have seen sales overall suffer despite sellouts for the likes of Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber. Even the Eagles--once an act that could be guaranteed to print money from boomers--have suffered during the dog da ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Ad Man Will Act Upon Every Twitter Command for 5 Days, Like an Internet-Controlled Marionette

    ​Starting on June 21, David Perez will do anything asked of him on Twitter @davidondemand while wearing a webcam on his glasses so that the entire Internet-universe can view his antics. While Perez (not that one) will be a pawn of Twitter users for 5 days, the experiment started with him actin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Why Chuck Schumer Saved the Jelly Pool Parties

    The crowd at the last Pool Party of the summer, 2009. Photo by Sam Horine​So why did one of the most powerful senators in the United States intervene to save a free concert series in Brooklyn? Writes Ben Sisario in the New York Times:

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2010

    Irving Plaza Is Officially Irving Plaza Again

    The old marquee, before the new marquee, which is now the old marquee again. Pic via Joe Madonna's photostream​Goodbye, "Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza"--your many syllables and unwieldy national branding associations will not be missed. The Times reports today that Live Nation is backing a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    KFC's New Slogan: People Really Do Get Paid to Come Up With This Shit

    Try wrapping your lips around KFC's latest.​The last slogan KFC spit up upon the unsuspecting public was "Unthink." It seems that a battalion of geniuses working at several top ad agencies followed that mantra in order to disgorge the company's latest slogan.

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    How to Win Friends and Influence People by Being an (Alleged) Plagiarist, or Whatever It Is You're Good at

    ​Proving that plagiarism doesn't ruin your career (at all) we have the case of Kaavya Viswanathan, the lit wunderkind who scored a reported $500,000 two-book deal while still in high school, had the first of her chick-lit novels published her sophomore year at Harvard, and then got busted for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Media Mogul James Dolan Elects to Use 'Nuclear Option' on Village Voice, Yet Again Pulling More Advertising Than Ever!

    ​Back in March, a blog post we published regarding a potential media acquisition by Cablevision, MSG Entertainment, and Rainbow Media owner James Dolan -- compounded by a vaguely worded, ominous legal threat from Dolan's corporate office, which was ignored and then published in a naive showing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    Prepare to Be Extorted: Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger Gets Department of Justice Approval

    ​Hard to see how this could have an upside for concertgoers. Today, the U.S. Department of Justice reportedly signed off on a long in the works merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation, clearing aside the biggest obstacle to a proposed Live Nation Ticketmaster entertainment conglomerate. Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2009

    Voting Machine Smack-Down: Lobbyists Brawl

    The city Board of Elections -- the last unabashed stronghold of political patronage - is poised to award the ultimate political contract. On Tuesday the board's ten political appointees - one each from each party in each borough -- will choose between two giant election machine companies that, for a ... More >>

  • Film

    August 18, 2009

    Art & Copy, Doug Pray's Tribute to Ads

    The city Board of Elections -- the last unabashed stronghold of political patronage - is poised to award the ultimate political contract. On Tuesday the board's ten political appointees - one each from each party in each borough -- will choose between two giant election machine companies that, for a ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 3, 2009

    WILL FILM FOR FOOD

    Opening gala kicks off a week of yummy films

  • News

    August 12, 2008

    New York City's Struggle to Take Down Illegal Billboards

    City government and citizen vigilantes wage a losing battle against Clear Channel and illegal ads

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2008

    Chips and Dip

    City government and citizen vigilantes wage a losing battle against Clear Channel and illegal ads

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2008

    Priest Blesses Aramark Workers at PricewaterhouseCoopers

    City government and citizen vigilantes wage a losing battle against Clear Channel and illegal ads

  • Film

    June 5, 2007

    Reality Czech in Aisle Nine

    Doc dupes entire nation, makes trenchant case against consumer culture

  • News

    August 29, 2006

    Andrew Cuomo's $2 Million Man

    How the Attorney General wannabe turned an accused slumlord into a sugar daddy

  • News

    November 1, 2005

    That Sinking Feeling

    Alito, Plamegate—there's even no escape in South America for Bush

  • News

    October 25, 2005

    Harriet Miers, We Hardly Knew Ye

    Battered Bush accepts withdrawal of flagging Supreme Court nominee

  • News

    October 11, 2005

    Boring From Within

    Harriet Miers: This is your life

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2005

    Morning Report 10/5/05
    Harriet's Supreme Qualification: Her Firm's Fundraising

    Harriet Miers: This is your life

  • News

    July 19, 2005

    The Roberts file

    The Supreme Court nominee: A conservative lawyer in King Dubya's court

  • Screens

    June 21, 2005

    Blue Chipping

    In 23 million years, Google will fall to the rebellion. And no, we don't mean 'Ask Jeeves'

  • Screens

    June 14, 2005

    Get Eaten

    In 23 million years, Google will fall to the rebellion. And no, we don't mean 'Ask Jeeves'

  • Music

    July 6, 2004

    Live Dead

    Concert biz endures summer; Clear Channel screws bands

  • News

    December 9, 2003

    Settling Some Debts

    Like Fox to Henhouse, Baker Goes to Iraq

  • News

    April 1, 2003

    Bush's Voice of America

    Pro-War Media Conglomerate Tries to Take Over New York

  • News

    August 13, 2002

    Detainees Equal Dollars

    The Rise in Immigrant Incarcerations drives a prison boom

  • Music

    June 4, 2002

    Music

    The Rise in Immigrant Incarcerations drives a prison boom

  • News

    August 14, 2001

    The Court Street Regular

    Brooklyn Machine Wants One of Its Own Atop the New Council

  • News

    December 19, 2000

    Drug War Goes on Trial

    Mexican Banker Sues 'Narco News'

  • News

    April 11, 2000

    Food Fight

    Students Boycott Campus Dining Halls to Protest Prisons

  • News

    March 7, 2000

    Click Back

    Privacy Hounds Bring DoubleClick to Heel—for Now

  • News

    November 16, 1999

    Nation

    Privacy Hounds Bring DoubleClick to Heel—for Now

  • News

    September 21, 1999

    Exit Stage Right

    Press Winks As Starr Tries To Dodge Accountability

  • News

    December 15, 1998

    Spy Commerce

    The Surveillance Society: Part Three

  • News

    May 26, 1998

    Vanity Fare

    A court ruling this month brings the shadowy world of vanity publishing into the open

  • News

    April 28, 1998

    Criminal Information

    A court ruling this month brings the shadowy world of vanity publishing into the open

  • News

    November 11, 1997

    Upstart Start-Ups

    A court ruling this month brings the shadowy world of vanity publishing into the open

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